Shloka 1
Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे … नाम नवमोऽध्यायः ।
दशमोऽध्यायः ।
जैमिनिरुवाच—
संशयं द्विजशार्दूलाः प्रब्रूत मम पृच्छतः ।
आविर्भावतिरोभावौ भूतानां यत्र संस्थितौ ॥
iti śrīmārkaṇḍeyapurāṇe … nāma navamo 'dhyāyaḥ |
daśamo 'dhyāyaḥ |
jaiminir uvāca—
saṃśayaṃ dvijaśārdūlāḥ prabrūta mama pṛcchataḥ |
āvirbhāva-tirobhāvau bhūtānāṃ yatra saṃsthitau ||
इति श्रीमार्कण्डेयपुराणे नवमोऽध्यायः समाप्तः, यत्र आडिबकयोः संग्रामवर्णनम्। अथ दशमोऽध्याय आरभ्यते। जैमिनिरुवाच—हे द्विजवरव्याघ्राः, मम संशयं पृच्छतः समाधत्त। भूतानां प्रादुर्भावतिरोभावौ कस्मिन्नाधारे प्रतिष्ठितौ?
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FAQs
The chapter opens by placing existential questions—how beings appear and vanish—within a dharmic inquiry. The ethical implication is that understanding embodiment and its causes (karma, dharma, knowledge) is foundational to right conduct and liberation-oriented living.
Primarily touches Sarga/Pratisarga themes in a philosophical mode (appearance/disappearance of beings), preparing for karmic and cosmological explanation rather than narrating a specific manvantara episode here.
“Appearance and disappearance” can be read as the oscillation of consciousness with upādhis (limiting adjuncts): birth and death are surface-movements, while the deeper inquiry seeks the substrate (dharma/karma and ultimately brahman-like ground) upon which manifestation is superimposed.